Key House Republican lays out Trump tax plans, benefits for seniors
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🗓️ 15 November 2024
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House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith discussed how his committee plans to advance President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda on tax issues, including no tax on tips, cuts for small businesses, and modifying the tax code to benefit seniors. He also praised Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s goals for the new Department of Government Efficiency, saying, “In our country, we don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem.” Additional interview with former Chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship Alfonso Aguilar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, American, happy Friday. |
| 0:08.0 | Wow, what a week. |
| 0:09.0 | It's been a whirlwind week as the Trump administration 47 really ratchets to life very quickly. |
| 0:15.0 | Lots of appointments this week. |
| 0:16.0 | A lot of people under consideration. |
| 0:18.0 | We'll see what happens in the rest of these moments. Doug Bergam, the governor |
| 0:22.4 | of North Dakota, who's going to be stepping down as governor anyways. He's going to be the new |
| 0:25.6 | Interior Secretary. That's good for the energy team. He is a bona fide expert in energy policy. |
| 0:31.8 | And I think somebody who can be really, really a tremendous asset to this administration. Of course, |
| 0:37.0 | we got Bobby Kennedy at HHS. That's a big one. |
| 0:40.0 | If I had a flag one, there are rumors that President Trump is considering former congressman, |
| 0:47.3 | former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, who just ran for Senate and Lost in Michigan |
| 0:53.0 | to be the FBI director. I think that |
| 0:55.7 | that one, there are some red flags on. And I say that, not because I don't like Congressman |
| 1:01.7 | Mike Rogers. I know him well. In fact, I vetted him for a possible television show a couple |
| 1:07.6 | years ago where he might have been a co-host. But back in the days when he was with the House Intelligence Committee, there were |
| 1:12.7 | serious concerns about the aggression that he didn't show the failure to dig in deeper |
| 1:18.0 | on the Benghazi scandal. |
| 1:20.7 | There are parts of Benghazi that are still a secret because House Intelligence didn't |
| 1:24.2 | do enough work. |
| 1:25.7 | And I think his willingness there to take the line of the |
| 1:29.7 | intelligence community instead of the line of inquiry that maybe the American people deserved |
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